The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-16

PAAO HI CAAO AAOPAuCC tl1tbO OfCIAliH1 while he skinned and soaped the mag pie, ground-squirrel, and rattlesnake which his bag contained, and stuffed them with cotton, he listened to the old mans grievance.
 This squatter's name was Schatten- fels, commonly called now, he said, "Old Fels." He had penetrated the wilderness thirty years before, and taken squaw wife.
 This relationship gave immunity from Indian hostility, and he settled here on Klat-awa creek, where he long since staked out a quarter section of land, eighty rods wide and mile long, following the course of the stream. This quarter section he had never filed upon, because the region was only lately surveyed and opened up to settlement. Therefore he had no certified legal title.
 A week before, several white men, with horses and wagon, had arrived upon his land, and were now survey Ing and stalking out town site along the creek below, without regard to his prior occupancy.
 Calbeck became much interested in this narrative. The rough log cabin, chinked with mud and moss, contain ing only one apartment besides the shallow loft above, grimy with smoke and festooned with dry pumpkin and strings of cured venison and salmon; the patient squaw crouched by the fire, plating mat-work of fatted rushes; the squatter, striding across the packed earthen floor, gesticulating with ex- -citement, his beard awry, and gigantic fitful shadows showing spectral be- hind him on the walls,-all these con- ditions lent tragic simplicity and pa thos to the story.
 Now Calbeck, although genial and worthy young fellow, had some grave faults not yet outgrOwn. He was apt to imagine that he knew more than others, and was sometimes stubbornly dictatorial and free to interfere. Stirred by this recital, he replied, con- descendingly, while laying roll of cotton gently in the skin of the mag pie to preserve it's form at proper ten sion, "Pll go over and see those fel- lows in the morning, and warn them off"
 So?" The German turned upon him in surprise and contempt.
 ''How many are there?" inquired Calbeck.
 "Sex. haf warn dem init deseW Fels caught up his Winchester rife, and brandished it.
 "Perhaps they don't understand your rights. l can explain and scare them away"
 The squatter demanded, roughly, "Vat for you come in desc Big Bend?"
 "I am after birds. stuff the skins, and set them for people east"
 "Hoow The German turned his back upon his guest contemptuously. The curator's statement seemed trivial, and Fels suspected him of sinister de- signs.
 AS Calbock placed his fresh speci- men carefully in the seamless sack, Fels said, "Schleep derew pointing to rough ladder which led to the loft. Calbeck, weary from a long tramp, ascended and, lying down on the pile of bear and deer belts which he found, slept soundly. After breakfast, full of zeal and undaunted by the suspi- cions of his host, he again repeated his intention to visit the intruders and warn them of.
 "I know you go dere," replied the German, gruffly, fixing piercing gaze on the curator's face. "You be- longs init dem."
 "No," replied Calbeck, earnestly, "I do do not know them; but they will understand me better than they do you. Pll make them go. Let these lie here until I come back" He pointed to his blankets and bag of specimens.
 The German regarded him in sur prise, looking at the blankets with a puzzled air, as Calbeck shouldered his shotgun, slung his field-glass, and went forth. The curator was barely past the corral, when he heard Fels speak behind him.
 "Hi, you mans, take dese!"
 From the opposite side of the corral Fels tossed the bag and bundle of blankets high over the plaited poles. They fell at the young mans feet.
 "I not haf desc here. You shust take dem. You meet not go for me dem wagon to. Imust mint mein own pizeness burty we'll"
 Calbeck was irritated by this speech and action. He stopped moment, thinking to abandon the Germans cause, and kept on with his own work; but he was naturally sanguine, head strong, and kind hearted.
 He resolved to keep on; to repay Fels' hospitality by warning the whites of their peril, and inducing them to leave. Then he would return, take his baggage, and go. Obstinate